Genesis 40:9
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The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,

a vine.

Genesis 37:5-10 Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. . . .

Judges 7:13-15 And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground. . . .

Daniel 2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.

Daniel 4:8,10-18 The tree was great and strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven: the sight thereof was even to the ends of all the earth. . . .

Context
The Cupbearer and the Baker
8They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed: 9The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,10On which were three branches, which by little and little sent out buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:…
Cross References
Genesis 40:1
After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.

Genesis 40:2
And Pharao being angry with them, (now the one was chief butler, the other chief baker,)

Genesis 40:8
They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

Genesis 40:10
On which were three branches, which by little and little sent out buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:

Lexicon
So the chief
שַֽׂר־ (śar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince

cupbearer
הַמַּשְׁקִ֛ים (ham·maš·qîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4945: Causing to drink, a butler, drink, a well-watered region

told
וַיְסַפֵּ֧ר (way·sap·pêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5608: To count, recount, relate

Joseph
לְיוֹסֵ֑ף (lə·yō·w·sêp̄)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

his dream:
חֲלֹמ֖וֹ (ḥă·lō·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2472: A dream

“In my dream
בַּחֲלוֹמִ֕י (ba·ḥă·lō·w·mî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2472: A dream

there
וְהִנֵּה־ (wə·hin·nêh-)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2009: Lo! behold!

was a vine
גֶ֖פֶן (ḡe·p̄en)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1612: A vine, the grape

before me,
לְפָנָֽי׃ (lə·p̄ā·nāy)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face


Additional Translations
So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

And the chief cupbearer related his dream to Joseph, and said, In my dream a vine was before me.

Then the chief of the cup-bearers told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

And the chief of the butlers recounteth his dream to Joseph, and saith to him, 'In my dream, then lo, a vine is before me!
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